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Possible WTO Impacts on U.S. Representative Farms. Joe L. Outlaw James W. Richardson J. Marc Raulston George M. Knapek World Trade Organization Impacts on U.S. Farm Policy New Orleans, LA June 2, 2005. Presentation Outline. WTO Considerations
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Possible WTO Impacts on U.S. Representative Farms Joe L. Outlaw James W. Richardson J. Marc Raulston George M. Knapek World Trade Organization Impacts on U.S. Farm Policy New Orleans, LA June 2, 2005
Presentation Outline • WTO Considerations • Why It’s So Difficult to Say What Will Happen • Representative Farms • Importance of Payments to Farms • Conclusions/Discussion
WTO Considerations • Leaving to others to detail what ruling said • From our perspective: • DPs – would make sense to eliminate planting restrictions • LDP/MLGs • CCPs • Step 2 – gone but let the industry try • GSM – gone or redo Must keep these 2 and other stuff under $19.1B
Why It’s So Difficult to Say What Will Happen? • No Fact Based Idea of How Congress will React • May or may not “really” act • May not even have to bother • If we do then -- when? • Short of these issues and no sector forecasts of what will happen: • Came up with idea of measuring the importance of each of the three payment types on our representative farms
Representative Farms • Analyzed the Farms Under: • Baseline • No DPs • No CCPs • No LDP/MLGs • Type and Location of Farms Most Dependent on Which Type of Payments or Conversely • How Would the Farms Rank Losing Each Type of Payment? • Would they Differ by Crop or Region?
Representative Crop Farms in Study Feed Grain Rice Feed Grain Feed Grain Feed Grain Feed Grain Cotton Rice Cotton Feed Grain Feed Grain Rice Cotton Feed Grain Rice Cotton Rice Cotton Rice Cotton Cotton Cotton Cotton Cotton Rice Feed Grain Cotton Feed Grain Rice Rice Feed Grain Cotton Cotton Cotton
Importance of Payments to Farms • Across all 44 farms, averaging from 2005-09, GP was 6x more than NCFI • Feed grains had 4 of 10 NCFI > GP • Cotton had 1 of 18 NCFI > GP • Rice had 1 of 16 NCFI > GP • REAL Important • Any change from current programs that don’t result in comparable GPs will be bad
Rep Farms Preferred Order of Cuts • Calculated risk premiums for each scenario • These farms would rather give up more (in some cases a lot more) of the uncertain funding than the certain DP • Recall no price response included – sector impacts
How Much is $1 Worth? • For example: • TXNP7000 2005-09 2005-09 2005-09 Ave LDP Ave CCP Ave DP Total $89.5 $97.9 $117.8 $305.2 CE LDP CE CCP CE DP $105 $115 $141 15.5 23.2 17.1
Conclusions/Discussion • Really Hard to Model Impacts With No Real Idea of What to Do • Very Farm Specific as to What Type of Payments are Most Preferred • Direct Payments Appear to be Worth More Than Others